Charm was a scheme for making strangers like and trust a person immediately, no matter what the charmer had in mind.
KURT VONNEGUTMany people need desperately to receive this message: ‘I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.
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My life is nothing but room for you. I said. It could never be filled by anyone but you.
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Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.
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True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
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There is no beginning, no middle, no end, no suspense, no moral, no causes, no effects. What we love in our books are the depths of many marvelous moments seen all at one time.
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A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.
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Can you see anything in the dark, with your sunglasses on? she asked me. The big show is inside my head, I said.
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There is no reason why good cannot triumph as often as evil. The triumph of anything is a matter of organization. If there are such things as angels, I hope that they are organized along the lines of the Mafia.
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I couldn’t help wondering if that was what God put me on Earth for–to find out how much a man could take without breaking.
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Round and round we spin, with feet of lead and wings of tin.
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Maturity, is knowing what your limitations are, Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything.
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She hated people who thought too much. At that moment, she struck me as an appropriate representative for almost all mankind.
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Americans, are forever searching for love in forms it never takes, in places it can never be. It must have something to do with the vanished frontier.
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Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you’ve been to college.
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And Lot’s wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human. So she was turned into a pillar of salt. So it goes.
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